- Led the Buoyant Cloud team, responsible for the development and maintenance of Buoyant's enterprise SaaS product, written in Go and React, with gRPC and GraphQL interfaces
- Leveraged multiple open source and cloud technologies to monitor Linkerd's health across customer clusters, including Kubernetes client-go, Grafana Agent, gRPC, Cortex, AlertManager, and MySQL
- Developed a build pipeline for Buoyant's distribution of Linkerd that provided artifact publishing with continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation, using GitHub actions, GitHub container registry, Snyk and Docker
- Served as a super maintainer of the Linkerd project, focused on the Go implementation of the control plane and CLI
- Led the Monorail Core team, responsible for the stability of the legacy Ruby on Rails monolith as it was decomposed into a service-oriented architecture
- Decommissioned multiple under-utilized storage and caching backends, leading to a substantial reduction in infrastructure costs
- Developed key features for the backend Tweet service, written in Scala, including the ability to schedule tweets and the ability to withhold tweets on a per-country basis
- Built out the client-facing API and backend services for surfacing realtime Tweet analytics data in a performant and scalable way
- Developed core functionality for the main customer-facing site, a robust search tool to measure and manage social media impact
- Combined search data from the in-house document index with additional external API content from sites such as Flickr, Twitter and YouTube, to create a rich and seamless user experience
- Overhauled the ecommerce system to support invoicing, credit card payments, contractual discounts and variable billing cycles
- Enabled automatic synchronization to Salesforce of customer contact information, billing parameters and service details
- Developed and administered platform tools to assist in the companywide software development lifecycle
- Implemented a continuous build system to automate package building across multiple architectures and operating systems
- Used Ruby on Rails to construct an inventory management system with a MySQL database backend, extending a REST API
- Compiled static reference answers to be displayed on Bing search results pages, using data pulled from Freebase and Wikipedia
- Oversaw the development, maintenance and regular upkeep of multiple organizational websites for various departments and projects
- Contracted appropriate web services for the management of online content, constituents, fundraising, advocacy and email messaging
- Relocated content and site files from the former MPP website into the Kintera Sphere Content Management System
- Authored Python and Bash scripts to find, categorize and annotate hundreds of HTML files stored a remote web server
- Implemented a course management system for use by faculty and students to facilitate online learning and course registration